Featured Student: Alicia Brown

by WIRED Science Education     Department: Featured Student

If you know a high school student who really loves exploring the world of science, email us why they should become our next Featured Student.

Alicia Brown is a senior at Central High School in Independence, Oregon.  She has a wide variety of interests both inside and outside the classroom, and has never passed up the opportunity to challenge herself, including electing to spend her sophomore year at the New Mexico Military Institute to "get a more varied experience."  She is an avid reader and writer, and admits to a Wikipedia obsession . . . which explains many a late English paper.

In My Own Words

My interest in science really started in the sixth grade.  My teacher was giving us the basic "and this is what we like to call an atom, and isn't it amazing?" lecture.  The one where you learn that there are levels where you put the electrons and that the protons are only in the nucleus.  I became slightly obsessed with atoms while we were learning about them and was commended for remembering that the first level only has two electrons in it.

I enjoyed the other science classes since then, but none so much as chemistry.  True, chemistry was a little more involved than sixth grade general science, but I really like it now.  Learning that there is more to an atom than the cute little levels was hard to grasp sometimes.  I mean, anything probably is if it contradicts previous "truth."

My favorite thing with these nifty up and down electrons I found out about in chemistry was the fact that there even are up and down electrons.  Who would ever think such a thing?  It's a negative particle -- forget about it!   But no! There are different kinds!  That is the coolest thing in my opinion.

Favorite Science Videos 

Earth Fight -- This cool video some kids my age created about their take on climate change.

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